Annie Lennox, Bare

Annie Lennox has not been terribly prolific in the years since she left the great ’80s art-pop duo Eurythmics at the beginning of the last decade. Solo, she brought us the sophisticated and occasionally wonderful Diva, and a dreadful covers album called Medusa, aptly named in that it turned the hearts of most critics to stone. In 1999, she and fellow Eurythmic Dave Stewart reunited for the solidly urbane Peace, but Bare finds her going her own way again. It’s a downbeat bit of business, a breakup record that works best with the lights dimmed and a glass of red wine. That’s not a bad thing; her smoky voice is well-suited to the slow-burning torch songs, though the defiant “Bitter Pills” makes us wish the rest of the record had a touch more verve.


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